10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
As someone who lives close enough to Buffalo to feel both tremendous fear and relief regarding the 7 feet of snow that engulfed that part of Western NY, I can assure you: November weather is WILD. No snow here!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. Then, there was a herd of buffaloes.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The following year, 2014, I elected to join a different group birding the lowland seasonal forest at the opposite end of the CBC radius from where I had that wonderful experience the year before. Access is restricted, and the livestock referred to are highly temperamental water buffalo. Trinidad Lancehead , or Fer-de-lance.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. Read your own headline, take a look at the buffalo skulls pictured at right, and wake up, Rip Van Winkle. Why do they do this? It’s not the 1800s anymore.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014. Jay Lehman is doing an ABA-area big year this year and has so far racked up 331 species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2014
This past Saturday, 8 March, was perhaps the nicest day of 2014 so far in New York. The sun shone all day and the mercury reached fifty degrees Fahrenheit, which is only slightly above average for this time of year but felt like a heat wave considering the frigid temperatures we have endured this winter.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
She also grew up in upstate New York, which makes me wonder if she had a hand in that Buffalo mystery bird page?). Mystery images were one of the innovations of The Shorebird Guide (2006, co-authored by Crossley with Michael O’Brien and Kevin T. Karlson) and they have been incorporated by a number of bird identification guides since.
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